• NY: Justin Pecks swaps ballet pumps for sneakers

    NY: Justin Pecks swaps ballet pumps for sneakers

    January 26th 2017 sees the world premiere of The Times Are Racing the latest work by New York City Ballet star choreographer and principal dancer Justin Peck.  According to an interview in The New York Times, Peck said he had started choreographing the dance before the presidential election, but after Donald J. Trump won, he said, the…

  • Bowie dethrones The Queen

    Bowie dethrones The Queen

    David Bowie has temporarily dethroned H.M. The Queen who has lost her spot on UK postal stamps for a short period from March 13th.  The limited edition 10-stamp collection will showcase album covers for “Hunky Dory,” “Aladdin Sane,” “Heroes,” “Let’s Dance,” and “Earthling.” The collection will also feature four shots from his live tours. Royal Mail…

  • Center of My World

    Center of My World

    When German high-schooler Phil (Louis Hoffman) returns from summer camp he is greeted so enthusiastically by his mother Glass (Sabine Timoteo) and his best friend Kat (Svenja Jung) as if he’d been away for much longer than just three weeks.  We soon discover however that both these women tend to act melodramatically over almost every…

  • Eli Lieb #WERISE

    Eli Lieb #WERISE

    Openly gay singer/songwriter Eli Lieb decided he wanted  to make something to help people to continue feeling empowered and hopeful after the enormous success of the Women’s March on Saturday.  So he created this wonderfully moving video from a montage of clips from the March and why it was so necessary, and based it on Maya Angelou’s truly uplifting…